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The Baffler

The Ted Cruz Show

September 25, 2013
Perhaps a bizarre Twitter account doesn’t rise to the level of high art, but there is something of the Ziegfeld Follies in the kind of political posturing that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rolled out this week on the Senate floor. For twenty-one hours and change, the senator ...
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LinkedIn Will Email Your Exes For You

September 24, 2013
Baffled masses: Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Weeks before news broke that the popular social networking site LinkedIn was being sued by customers for regularly and shamelessly hacking into their customers’ email accounts, Ann Friedman’s sharp piece ...
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From the Vault

September 18, 2013
Inspired by the fifth anniversary of the financial crisis, this week the Huffington Post’s Eat the Press writer Jason Linkins has done the yeoman’s work of compiling a panoply of books, films, and music on the subject. Among these he has kindly included his ...

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As Baffler 18 went to press they were setting out the Christmas book display at the Kansas City Costco, a retail bazaar whose parking lot occupies the site of the city’s last jazz club. We never enter this particular Costco without thoughts about mortality, about what had to ...

Introduction

January 24, 2013
We sent this issue to press in June 2006 from Ana Cruz’s apartment high above the treetops in The Flamingo Hotel. As we watched cool wisps of mist drift inland from the lake, we wondered whether Ana’s national team, Brazil, really was going to win the World Cup. Then we ...

Introduction

January 18, 2013
We finished this issue in November 2002, shuttling between Dan Raeburn’s pied-à-terre in the fashionable Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago and our spread in Woodlawn. More than a year has passed since our last issue. We beg your pardon, but we’ve been busy homesteading. Our ...